![]() ![]() ![]() In intertwining Jeremiah and Ellie’s stories, Woodson brings issues associates with racial profiling and stereotypes to the surface and offers a perspective of these social issues as examined through they eyes of young, innocent love. While the conversation of race is potent, it is Jeremiah and Ellie’s disconnect with their families and issues of loneliness that drive their love story. Throughout the book the teens continuously deal with issues surrounding social judgment from both of their families as well as their classmates and strangers however, Woodson is careful to balance these experiences with a focus on the individual. Woodson centers her story’s plot on the interracial love story between New York teens Jeremiah and Ellie. As is to be expected with a young adult book produced by Jacqueline Woodson, discussion of and distinctions between racial identities is a central conversation woven into the plot of her novel If You Come Softly. ![]()
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